One of those arrested, Jeh Custer of Edmonton, was seen bleeding from the mouth after his head struck the concrete walls inside the House of Commons. Custer was observed with his hands handcuffed behind his back, being escorted by two uniformed RCMP officers into the basement in Parliament Hill's Centre Block.

Update: David Akin says our guy was indeed bleeding inside the HOC. But then there is still a period in which Carter/Custer is bloodless, and then shows up bloody again at the CBC interview.

Update Again: All of which doesn't explain where his injuries came from in the first place.

Even More Update: CBC'sJanyce McGregor mucked up her times in original article. First shot (bloodless) is from about 4:38pm (not 2:38), CTV's bloodied shot from 5:17. Pretty clear the blood is coming from over the nose in 2nd shot.

Bleeding from mouth and later blood on nose and higher. And there is that space between. I'm curious; for the interview with Solomon, would someone normally put makeup on the inerviewees, a bit of powder for the cameras?

Oh, it is Jeh Custer and he's a member of Sierra Club, prairie chapter. http://thegreenpages.ca/portal/ab/2009/07/tar_sands_oil_remains_dirty_de.html

Well, your title makes an unwarranted assumption. And both the NDP and the Sierra Club could trot out the usual weaselly rightwing excuse: "It was just a few bad apples, Yer Honour! Don't blame all of us!"

And he apparently has been getting up some people's noses over Syncrude's duck die off:http://www.ecojustice.ca/media-centre/press-clips/activist-files-action-against-syncrude-over-500-duck-deaths

and Stelmach and Wall:http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Stelmach+Wall+targeted+environment+campaign/1860797/story.html

A conspiracy theorist might wonder why he in particular got the bloody nose; did security have his picture? But as the clean-face video shows, he was acting as a leader so may have gotten more attention whether they knew him or not.

Here's the thing. We live in a democracy - an imperfect democracy, but, well, there you have it.

Which means that we won't get everything we want, even as strongly as we feel about it.

Peaceable protest is fundamental as well to democracy. And that includes offensive protest - however, that is also subject to the right of the state to remove those who are disrupting the ordinary business of government or the normal use of public property.

I mean.. in some respects its similar to the "tea party" types. It's fine to protest, but when you're only point is disruption, well, you're not contributing to the debate and really, your just discrediting your cause.

I'm sure that in one of those video still shots I could clearly see Green Helmet Gut.

He must be so proud of his climate hysteria proteges, even if all they would go for was a little blood. Back home they'd have killed off a few locals and then paraded their bodies around for the media.

Canadian greenies won't even go for some broken teeth. Such wimps these infidels.

Rob, in a democracy the elected representatives are supposed to pay attention to the people they represent. They aren't.

Trouble is leftists and warmers think they are the only ones who should be listened to and they're willing to disrupt to prove it. Look at all the attempts to shut down unpopular speakers on university campuses.

Trouble is leftists and warmers think they are the only ones who should be listened to and they're willing to disrupt to prove it. Look at all the attempts to shut down unpopular speakers on university campuses.

Well, stop saying stupid, fucked-up things then and maybe the rest of us (not just lefties) will think you're worth listening to.

Like the rest of us are supposed to sit around quietly and nod politely while everything we think is important is dismissed variously as nazism, totalitarian communism, genocide, terrorism, jihad, pedophilia, etc. etc.

So my dear wife says Custer has produced a Dr.s note claiming his nose wound is legit. Haven't seen anything online. Was supposed to be on CBC radio. Guys apparently got a scar on his nose. Anyone produce proofs and I will post on it.

So the wound over the eye seems real. There's video of him in the basement of the HOC, bleeding proudly.

Then the wound is gone when he leaves the HOC.

Then its back when he's on CBC, and almost exactly the same as previous.

I'm beginning to wonder about CBC on this. Was this guy sitting in their building bleeding...for how long? I've been on TV once or twice, and if I came to the place bleeding, you'd think they would ask me to take a few minutes in the Mens.